Psychological features and quality of life in 50 adult patients with epilepsy and their caregivers from the Lecco epilepsy center, Italy
| Autor: | Andrea Rigamonti, Rossana Regazzoni, Elena Lamperti, Lorenzo Stanzani, A. Petruzzi, Paolo Borelli, Andrea Salmaggi, C.Y. Finocchiaro, Antonio Silvani |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Outpatient Clinics Hospital Stigma (botany) Context (language use) Anxiety Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience Epilepsy 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry Depression (differential diagnoses) Aged business.industry Depression Middle Aged medicine.disease Mental health Health Surveys Neurology Caregivers Italy Quality of Life Anticonvulsants Female Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Epilepsybehavior : EB. 71 |
| ISSN: | 1525-5069 |
| Popis: | Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders. To the best of our knowledge, in Italy, the relationship between patients' and caregivers' psychological state has rarely been analyzed. Thus, we sought to evaluate both the psychological state of patients with epilepsy and that of their caregivers and the interrelationship between them. We also assessed the existing relation between psychological features and some clinical and demographic information, such as number of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), epilepsy duration and education level of patients and their caregivers. We enrolled in the study 50 consecutive adult patients attending the epilepsy clinic of "A. Manzoni" Hospital and their caregivers. Both patients and their caregivers were administered Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36). Anxiety, depression and quality of life values of both patients and their caregivers did not differ significantly from the normative samples. No statistically significant correlation between epilepsy duration and patients' and caregivers' psychological features was found. Patients which took more than one AED reported lower values of "Vitality" (p |
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